The number of crimes involving Facebook and Twitter is rising rapidly in the UK; figures released by police have shown. Police received more reports of threatening behaviour involving social media websites in 2014 compared with the previous year. There was a significant rise in the number of Facebook-related crimes, with the Metropolitan Police receiving overRead More…

This week, the White House launched @POTUS, which is the commander-in-chief’s official Twitter handle. “Six years in, they’re finally giving me my own account,” said Obama in his first tweet. The move came as the next logical step for an administration that embraces social media – a platform that plays an increasing role in howRead More…

Twitter and other real-time social media outlets can be utilised to detect HIV outbreaks as well as drug behaviour, according to a group of researchers from UCLA. The study, which was published in the Preventive Medicine journal, was conducted via UCLA’s Center for Digital Behavior. It showed that there is a relation between the geographicalRead More…